Chapter III of Vacant’s work is long, and so the WM Review is publishing it in two parts. This first part addresses the express teaching of the ordinary magisterium, and the second will consider its implicit and tacit teaching acts. This part also describes the ways in which the Church makes use of natural sciences …
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The organs and instruments of the ordinary magisterium – Chapter II of Fr J.M.A. Vacant’s nineteenth-century work on the magisterium
The WM Review continues our translation and publication of this nineteenth work on the ordinary magisterium. As we already noted, the author J.M.A. Vacant was the initial director of the Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique and was a seminary professor. This short work was awarded the prize for the theological competition in La Controverese, judged by …
The Ordinary and Universal Magisterium of the Church – Chapter I of nineteenth-century work on the magisterium by J.M.A. Vacant
We are pleased to present another section from this study by J.M.A. Vacant, in which he addresses the concept and the authority of the ordinary and universal magisterium. We previously published Chapter VI of this work, on the Pope’s personal exercise of this magisterium. Fr Vacant was a professor of the Major Seminary of Nancy, …
Theology Manuals – Why are they so important in the post-conciliar crisis?
“Where do we go to learn the Catholic Faith? How do we make sense of the modern ecclesial landscape?” This article was originally published at LifeSiteNews (source). Reprinted with permission. All pictures have been added. Cover photo source In a time of rampant confusion about basic Catholic doctrine – to say nothing of more complicated …
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